Every year about 6 million Australian volunteers chip in more than 500 million hours of unpaid labor but raising the retirement age will reduce people's ability to contribute their free time and efforts, a Flinders University ...
Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2021
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The established view is that in a two-party representative democracy, political parties should target the average voter if they want to be re-elected. So why do some political systems become polarized, rather than remain ...
Political science
Aug 5, 2021
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As case rates of COVID-19 reach new heights across the nation, many states and cities are tightening stay-at-home restrictions to stop the spread. New research suggests that that those suffering from economic hardships are ...
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2020
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Research from the University of Kent's School of Economics sheds new light on a long-standing obstacle to improving agricultural productivity in developing countries: the reluctance of small-scale farmers to adopt modern ...
Economics & Business
Oct 1, 2020
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Were you among the youngest students in your class? If the answer is yes, you might have felt at a disadvantage compared to your older classmates, and a host of scientific studies has shown that you were right feeling that ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2019
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Software companies are more likely to base their operations in locations where skilled potential recruits already workârather than staff moving to new areas for fresh opportunities.
Economics & Business
Sep 10, 2019
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Victoria University of Wellington research shows there has been almost no change to the level of crime in the United States since the legalisation of medical marijuana.
Economics & Business
Aug 22, 2018
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About 200,000 working days are lost in Germany every year due to insufficient sleep, with an economic loss of $60 billion, or about 1.6 percent of its GDP, according to a 2016 Report of the RAND Corporation. Francesco Billari ...
Economics & Business
Aug 3, 2018
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A greater representation of women in the government is bad news for corruption, according to a new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization by researchers Chandan Jha of Le Moyne College and Sudipta ...
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2018
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Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to "filter out" ...
Economics & Business
Mar 15, 2018
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